Hostgator email settings to point email to hostgator
Once finished with all the edits, click on "Save". Points To: (again, in place of "", it will be the domain name of your store) Name: or (the domain name of your store) With MX record, you will need to add the following details. Points To: your Hostgator IP address, which you can find in the Account Information/Stats panel of cPanel on your Hostgator dashboard. Name: (in place of "", it will be the domain name of your store) With A record, you will need to add the following details. Under records, you will need to add an additional A and an MX record.
In the end, you should in total have 4 Nameservers: 2 belong to Shopify, and 2 belong to your Hostgator Nameservers. Just below them, add your Hostgator Nameservers, which you would have received in your cPanel details email. Leave the Shopify Nameservers as they are. Under Nameserver, you will find Shopify Nameservers already updated in this section. The key here is adding additional Nameservers along with a new A record and a new MX record. In order to make your request happen, you will need to modify your DNS settings from Cosmotown. That being said, by following the steps below, you shall be able to have HostGator continuing hosting your email while the domain you have from Cosmotown is pointing at Shopify. Knowing that you are using Cosmotown as your domain provider, you may want to consult them with the following instructions. With a third party domain provider, Shopify will host your website, and have another third-party provider host your email.
Your request can be done without investing in G-Suite for the Shopify site.